Tribes Quotes

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Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests -… — Corey Taylor
We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building… — Barack Obama
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a… — Gerald Heaney
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a… — Michael Kinsley
The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans… — Elaine Pagels
A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not… — Jose Mujica
Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family.… — Isabella Rossellini
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. — Winston Churchill
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything… — Virginia Woolf
I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is… — Isobel Miller Kuhn
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from… — Lenny Bruce
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages. — Jasmine Guy
So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes… — Stephen Colbert
A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together. — Michael Rapaport
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored. — Alan Paton
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from… — Horace Bushnell
In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe. — Edward Abbey
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent,… — Eugene Ionesco

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